170 Miscellanies. 
ries. Of the eight thousand seven hundred species given by DeCan- 
dolle, more than three thousand are described for the first time in this 
work. In the general disposition of the order, the clear and simple 
classification of Lessing is to a Sides degree adopted. It is first divi- 
ded into three great series, v 
1. TusvuLirLor#; those wih the perfect flowers culighed and regu- 
larly 5- (or rarely 4-) toothe 
‘Lasiatirior£; those an bilabiate, or 2-cleft, perfect flowers. 
3. LicuLirLor& ; which have all the flowers strap-shaped. 
The first series includes about four fifths of the whole family, which 
are arranged in five tribes, viz. Vernoniacee, Eupatoriacee, Astero- 
idea, Senecionidee, and Cynaree. The second series consists exclu- 
sively of the Mutistacee and the Nassauviacce, chiefly South Amer- 
ican plants; a single species of Chaptalia is, we believe, the only 
North American representative. The third series, comprising the 
Cichoracea, so readily known by their milky juice, and by having all 
their florets ligulate, contains many North American representatives. 
So many orders or separate genera of Monopetalous plants have 
been the subjects of recent monographs, and much valuable assistance 
is also engaged for the ensuing portions of the Prodromus, that seve- 
ral volumes may be expected at no very distant period. It may not 
be improper to state that Mr. Boissicr of Geneva is engaged in the 
preparation of the Plumbaginee; Mr. Duby of Geneva will prepare 
the Primulacee ; Prof. Dunal of Montpelier, the Solanee; Mr. De 
Caisne of Paris, the Asclepiadee ; _and Mr. Bentham, the Scrophula- 
- rinee and Labiate. : 
= Endlicker, Genera Plantarum secundum Ordines Naturales 
disposita, (Vienna, 1836—1840).—This is one of the most important 
works of the age; and we are anxious to make it more generally 
known to the botanists of this country. It is not too much to says 
that without this, and Lindley’s Introduction to the Natural System, 
(or some equivalent work,) no person who does not possess the ad- 
vantage of a large library and an extensive general collection of 
plants, can obtain any correct idea of the present state of systematic 
otany. The work is published in parts, of eighty pages each, in an 
imperial octavo or a kind of oblong quarto form, closely printed i m 
double columns. The eleventh fasciculus, which is the last we have 
received, reaches to the eight hundred and eightieth page ; but proba- 
bly two or more additional numbers have by this time appeared. It 
_is stated in the original announcement that the work will not exceed 
ooo twelve numbers; we imagine, however, that four or five addi- 
‘Honal 1 will be eed for its completion: It commences, 
